Dopamine and prolactin involvement in the maternal care of chicks in the native Thai hen (Gallus domesticus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-144

  Chokchaloemwong, Duangsuda ^a   Rozenboim, Israel ^b   El Halawani, Mohamed E ^c   Chaiseha, Yupaporn ^a  

^a SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Native Thai chicken; Nucleus intramedialis; Nucleus mamillaris lateralis; Prolactin; Rearing behavior

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PROLACTIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HATCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS INTRAMEDIALIS; NUCLEUS MAMILLARIS LATERALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REARING; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; PROLACTIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84936159721     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.03.046     Document Type: Article

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